Not all CIOs begrudge Oracle its support fees, but others say they want a competitive support market to keep a lid on prices charged by Oracle and other large vendors. ["The support] cost was high and we never got anything out of them,” says Tom Grooms, CIO of paint company Valspar Corp. Read More »

Rimini offers support for certain Oracle software at half the price of the original service. Oracle is suing Rimini for allegedly pilfering its software. The outcome of the case, which goes to trial on September 14, is unclear. But the issues raised by the case clearly resonate with some CIOs, tapping into their frustration with the maintenance and support policies of Oracle, as well as other vendors. “The worst position you can be in as a CIO is having a lack of choice,” says Rimini customer Brian Murphy, CIO of Dean Foods. Read More »

The argument over whether law enforcement agencies should be able to execute digital wiretaps that bypass strong encryption of messages has raised fundamental questions about privacy and technology, and no resolution is in sight. But regardless of where U.S. policy is headed on this issue, it should go there in an informed and deliberate fashion. Read More »

Oracle Corp.’s skipper, Larry Ellison, said the software giant is making a major new effort to grow its cloud business and compete more directly with Amazon.com Inc. The announcement may help drive down the price of cloud services and may accelerate the mainstream migration of corporate computing to the cloud, both of which are big deals for CIOs. Read More »

Thursday’s FitBit Inc. IPO tells you all you really need to know about the demand for wearable devices, the Internet of Things, and the Quantification of Everything. The combination of data and connected devices is making the way for new business models and revenue streams. Read More »

Seemingly countless big companies have set up shop in Silicon Valley, hoping to capture a bit of the stardust that has propelled the growth of Internet and tech companies. But building interesting prototypes at these R&D centers is often the easy part. Transforming these ideas into viable products, platforms and ideas is far trickier Read More »

The open-source tool makes it easier to analyze data faster, enabling new business applications, such as the ability to analyze risk in real time.“We think this will help take Big Data to a whole new space,” Bob Picciano, senior vice president of IBM Analytics, tells CIO Journal. Read More »

“You can’t protect what you can’t see,” says Jesse McKenna, a cyber threat researcher at security firm vArmour. “Organizations without visibility into their data center traffic have no idea what type of attackers are in there, how long they’ve been there, or what they’re doing.” Read More »

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